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Thanks to volunteer TJ Schuitmaker for these images from the July 25th event in Amsterdam: Tweet Buzz This Post Post to Delicious Digg This Post Post to Facebook Stumble This Post

Ron Buitenhuis and his choir sing We Believe, a song that he wrote for Neda. He quoted a commenter on his youTube video when he introduced the song, “Neda died with her eyes open; don’t let us live with our eyes closed.” Tweet Buzz This Post Post to Delicious Digg This Post Post to Facebook [...]

Sign Shirin Ebadi’s petition: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/united4iran/#signpetition Click here to view an interview with Shirin Ebadi. Shirin Ebadi wowed us all. She came early, gave one interview after another, sang with the volunteers, and shared in a group hug. After Halleh Ghorashi’s rousing introduction, she came to the podium to chants from the crowd: Ebadi! Ebadi! She [...]

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Old coup d’état vis-a-vis new coup: The Iranian summer episode of peaceful demonstrators confronting armed revolutionary guards and militia who shoot at them with live ammunition, beat them, and arrest them goes on in Iran. Some 2000 intellectuals, journalists, and civil rights activists have been arrested in the last four weeks, including three friends of [...]

United 4 Iran: A Global Day of Action, July 25, 2009 Saturday, Amsterdam, Museumplein, 12:30 – 15:30 ما صدایی نداریم : شما صدایمان باشید (معلم 52 ساله، تهران) چیزی که در ایران برایم جالب است، همبستگی مخالفان و تفرقه در حکومت است؛ آنچه ایرانیان در گوشه و کنار دنیا انجام می دهند فوق العاده است [...]

Global voices editor, Hamid Tehrani, interviewed Kamran Ashtary, one of the coordinators of this project in the Netherlands and his wife, Tori Egherman, a blogger, artist, and accidental activist with United 4 Iran. Please describe the “United 4 Iran” project, its goals and where comes the initiative? There have been so many initiatives to support [...]

Iran faces International Pressures as Global Day of Action Nears 85 cities and counting, Peace Leaders, Artist and Organizations Join Worldwide New Media Driven Movement in Solidarity with Iranian People (July 23, 2009) On July 25th in more than 80 cities worldwide, Nobel Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Betty Williams, Mairead Maguire, [...]

From our amazing volunteer — who is spending her vacation working on United 4 Iran instead of in a villa in Croatia — Nadia: It is hard to believe that only a few days are left, and the Amsterdam team is working even harder to make sure that the event is going to be a [...]